Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 15, 2012

Now there’s a guy who really cares about his fans.

Pastis is alright too!

Was the reader’s name “Al Wright”?

SNERK!!!! Alright you guys, knock it off, alright?

each time you coin a new word, drop it in a jar as a syntax to those who are offended

Anybody who expects formal writing in a comic strip needs to have their head examined

Alright, all ready. Knock it off!

ALRIGHT,I said it the loudest. alright?

no, it makes an “alleft”

Stephan has raised passive-aggressive behavior to an art form — and I LOVE it! :D

The number of craps Stephen Pastis gives is running low.

Must have been from a graduate of All bright college.

Ironically, the first thought to pop into mind as I read this was that the first sentence should be “What do you have” or “What have you got”, not “What do you got”.

Let’s just move on, aiight?

Ahwrite, what do I got to do to do this stop?

Enuf already

Coincidence – this was exactly the topic of yesterday’s Pibgorn strip.

It should be two words when you write something like, “Everything will be all right now.” But there is nothing wrong with writing “alright” in dialog — as in a cartoon. But in dialog, there should be a way to indicate the correct pronunciation (depending on what part of NY/NJ your character comes from) when saying, “alright alright already.” Is it “al” or “all”?

“Alright then! "….. Sling Blade

Alright alright now lets everyone calm down.

must be a grammar nazi. a failed english major. get that ba in english, and thought that he would become the next hemingway, but became an english teacher at high school. still working on his novel, and only finished 1 chapter and won’t show anyone, because it isn’t done yet. liberal arts majors are crap.

Radish and Firedome….. no, THREE alrights make an allleft.four make an alstraightahead.

SayWhat — neither. It’s awright awready.

And yeah, loved “syntax”, rf_eq…. a real groaner…

and JoanHelen….. as a frequent practitioner of the dubious art of punmaking, I beg you: please don’t take our groans away….I consider them rewards.

that’s what is causing the decay of Society. Slopy speling

I wonder how many comic strip artists actually have little name plaques on their desks

Enough of this, a’aight?

All right, usually pronounced as if it were a single word, probably should have followed the same orthographic development as already and altogether. But despite its use by a number of reputable authors, the spelling alright has never been accepted as a standard variant, and the writer who chooses to risk that spelling had best be confident that readers will acknowledge it as a token of willful unconventionality rather than as a mark of ignorance.

Yup! Stephen is alright!

@firedome: wouldn’t that rather be an alstraight?

from Merrian-WebsterDefinition of ALRIGHT: all right

Usage Discussion of ALRIGHTThe one-word spelling alright appeared some 75 years after all right itself had reappeared from a 400-year-long absence. Since the early 20th century some critics have insisted alright is wrong, but it has its defenders and its users. It is less frequent than all right but remains in common use especially in journalistic and business publications. It is quite common in fictional dialogue, and is used occasionally in other writing <the first two years of medical school were alright — Gertrude Stein>.

this is as good as his long drawn out puns

I teach in Albuquerque but am from Texas, in Texas “alot” is a word, here its “a lot”. Go figure…

and it worked…my ears are bleeding! (snicker)

His family crest has the logo “I’ll Write!” with crossed pens and a balled fist.

Alright, my spell checker passed it as being alright.

The problem with pedantic readers is that they All Write.

Alright, let’s get this sorted out. And all you guys who want it spelled all right go stand on the right so that the alrights are all that’s left and the all rights are all right.

One less reader.

But this comic is syndicated, doesn’t that mean that alrights reserved??

Love it

Repeat to yourself, “It’s just a comic strip. I should really just relax.”

Alright already, this is alright

I don’t waste time writing to newspapers about it, but the correct usage of ‘all right’ is a peeve of mine (not pet; it isn’t housebroken yet.)

However, messing with pedants is one of my most favorite things ever.

Well done, Mr. Pastis.

Alright, the grammer Nazis have spoken! Ya done good Stephen.

Irregardless, is it alright to say irregardless??

Alot of people ain’t happy with alright, but really, who gives a carp about the English language? What’s so important about communication, anyway? It’s not like kids are reading this stuff, and grownups don’t care. Yeah, I said “alot.”

Look,SP does see comments,but in a follow the money way kinda.And why it coulda been “whaddaya got?”,innit…

My gramma can whip your gramma.

alright, now this is funny!

“Alright” [“Al, who”?] is not all right. Cartoon-Pastis is just prostituting himself to the ignorant masses who have swallowed the kool-aid of descriptive rather than prescriptive grammar. This reduces mutual comprehension and increases confusion and misunderstanding and the secondary malefactions to which they may lead. It is a crime. I am glad that RL-Pastis can use cartoon-Pastis in this deliciously ironic humorous tweak of our cultural biases.

It’s realhttp://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alright

I never should of read all these comments, alright?

Glad you appreciate correction. How many of us wrote in about it?

Anybody who insists on spelling a word only one way is Narrow Minded! Alright?

Concerned more about alright than $%#@&!

It’s alright Ma, I’m only bleeding.

Sisyphos, if you insist upon prescriptive grammar, you’re going to be pushing that boulder uphill for a LONG time. Language changes over time and, as H C Wap suggests, if you’re bent out of shape by “alright” why don’t you push for the “correction” of “altogether” and “already” (or “almighty”, for that matter)?

Don’t think twice, it’s alright.

I have no doubt in my mind that there’s some grammar nazi out there that felt he needed to write in to the newspaper to ‘correct’ this. I’ve seen then often enough online, so I’m sure there are still a few out there reading newspapers.

Haha! You tell him Stephen!

xxx

least twasn’t a-ite with everybody.

In the voice of Kevin Hart…. ALRIGHT, ALRIGHT ALLLLLLRRRRRIIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHTTTTTT

interceptor… The readers name was Al L. Right

HA! Classic! ALRIGHT!

My ears are ringing from the shock of “What do you got”. One hopes that was intentional by Pastis, intended to foreshadow the “alright” v. “all right” jokes.

Noone cares.

Must have hit a nerve – all ready up to 87 comments.

Luann, the comment champ, has only 79 so far.

Every body shood try tobe carefull about their speling and grammer. Alot of the time noone seams to cair. I shur do.

Alright!

yowza

Alright? All right? Awl-wright? (that last is an artisan who crafts awls, or a Texas construction company)

You know you are obsessed when you havee read slmost every strip since 2005…

Very well, then…..

It’s alright. People get it wrong everyday.

Well, it really is “all right” but if Patis wants to write it alright, it’s all right with me.

Whatever happened to freedom of speech? ;-)

Perhaps this is against a “Leftist” group for the support of a “Righteous” sect, no?

does that reader exists?

Apparently someone who doesn’t regularly read Pearls… if it was, they would have known that Pastis would berate them and make fun of them as soon as he found out. ;-)

Alright, alright, alright, alright. Stop the alrights, alright?

God, this complaint is ridiculous

Now there’s no image at all, which is no okay. Too many comments have somehow made the image go away leaving just the text version?

Albert is correct! (primitive speak)= Al right!

If you’re not careful, you’re really going to tick off Matthew McConaughey!!

Matthew McConaughey got famous with his, “Alright, Alright, Alright!” and now he advertises for Lincoln while riding around in one!!!